European Competitions 2023/24 - Signings & Rumours

[janketa]

You are not bigger fan of Nedovic than tonia

Didn't know about that but it's great, that makes two of us and a few haters

[coinho]

I am his biggest fan and I don't hide it

Real will have effects now, in fact they already lost against Murcia

You are not bigger fan of Nedovic than tonia

[Dreamcatcher]

I am his biggest fan and I don't hide it

Bad for you. Probably he's the most injury pron player in Europe. Otherwise, he could be that best player in EL.

[janketa]

You are bigger fan of Nedovic than his wife.

Joke aside, the fact is that injuries affect the season for most teams except Real and Barca.

I am his biggest fan and I don't hide it

Real will have effects now, in fact they already lost against Murcia

[Obina]

Nedovic is the best CZ player(maybe even in EL together with Larkin), so it won't be easy 4 weeks without him

Good for CZ is easy schedule next 5 games, but it will mostly depend of Teo

You are bigger fan of Nedovic than his wife.

Joke aside, the fact is that injuries affect the season for most teams except Real and Barca.

[janketa]

Nedovic is the best CZ player(maybe even in EL together with Larkin), so it won't be easy 4 weeks without him

Good for CZ is easy schedule next 5 games, but it will mostly depend of Teo

[Obina]

Zvezda sign Javonte Smart.

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[Edgar]

according to marca from spain we have already made an offer to tavares (3m/year) and to hezonja (2m/year). by the way, these numbers are the players' salary, taxes are not paid by them like they do in spain, so for tavares to earn 3m in real, means something like 5 million that real needs to offer (i think tax is 40% or something like that? not sure though).
article in greek https://www.sdna.gr/mpasket/1159661_...i-ston-hezonia

also we are talking with nunn to find out if he wants to stay next season. he brought his family and looking for school for his son and he says he is happy so far. i think we can renew him with some nba out clause until some point at summer. if we fail to renew him, we will of course go for another scorer, for example larkin or micic or someone expensive. we also have vildoza, if he doesnt improve i think he will be replaced as well

sloukas-grant
micic-nunn-dorsey
hezonja-papapetrou
juancho-mitoglou
tavares-lessort-antetokunbo

this could be a good roster

You know Lithuanian cyclist is staying 100%
It's same like Simon in the Efes. Ataman likes him and that's it and he plays perfectly. I also think Nunn will probably stay in the Europe. He will be 29 before next season and I have big doubts he will find what is he looking for in the NBA even though I think he realized he can't get big contract there anymore but he can get really nice contract here and in the NBA he is done and can only be maybe 3rd PG in the team.

[saras]

according to marca from spain we have already made an offer to tavares (3m/year) and to hezonja (2m/year). by the way, these numbers are the players' salary, taxes are not paid by them like they do in spain, so for tavares to earn 3m in real, means something like 5 million that real needs to offer (i think tax is 40% or something like that? not sure though).
article in greek https://www.sdna.gr/mpasket/1159661_...i-ston-hezonia

also we are talking with nunn to find out if he wants to stay next season. he brought his family and looking for school for his son and he says he is happy so far. i think we can renew him with some nba out clause until some point at summer. if we fail to renew him, we will of course go for another scorer, for example larkin or micic or someone expensive. we also have vildoza, if he doesnt improve i think he will be replaced as well

sloukas-grant
micic-nunn-dorsey
hezonja-papapetrou
juancho-mitoglou
tavares-lessort-antetokunbo

this could be a good roster

[Edgar]

I think Edgar and myself are thinking more of the 2015-16 team, which was definitely a notch below the roster in 2016-17. And remember how they ended up paying Erwin Dudley to be a "practice player"?

Yup. The team with Arslan, Redding, Preldzic, Gordon, Harangody, Erden... I saw that then and never again a team with 17 players of the same quality - average/below average.

[Jazz]

some darussafaka 2016-2017 players:

scottie wilbekin, brad wanamaker, dairis bertans, james anderson, will clyburn, adrien moermann, luke harangody, marcus slaughter, ante zizic.

lost the play-off 3-1 against real madrid…

calling this team mediocre is unfair.

darussafaka project came to the end because dogus group became sponsor to fenerbahce after ulker.

I think Edgar and myself are thinking more of the 2015-16 team, which was definitely a notch below the roster in 2016-17. And remember how they ended up paying Erwin Dudley to be a "practice player"?

[iskoch]

some darussafaka 2016-2017 players:

scottie wilbekin, brad wanamaker, dairis bertans, james anderson, will clyburn, adrien moermann, luke harangody, marcus slaughter, ante zizic.

lost the play-off 3-1 against real madrid…

calling this team mediocre is unfair.

darussafaka project came to the end because dogus group became sponsor to fenerbahce after ulker.

[Jazz]

I am actually not that convinced this is going to happen. When you look let say their football league there isn't a lot of stars. Actually they have a plan in football to sign young Brazilian guys literally when they are 17, 18 and move them to their academies. There are a lot of bunch unknown foreign players. And football is 50x bigger in UAE than basketball. They care only about money and EL is not profitable league. So it doesn't make any sense to me that they will throw 40, 50M euros per year for the budget+13M for the clubs with the licence and all other expenses for the sport that literally no one cares about in the UAE. I know 2 local people from UAE who are businessman and every 2nd word from them is "money". We will see, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if their project is something like Valencia, Asvel or even Darussafaka when they entered EL with that pretty average team.

Good points. I was making a bit of an assumption about their budget.
And I love your references to that Darussafaka team. Mediocrity that should never be forgotten.

[Edgar]

That's interesting.
This Dubai team will likely have the budget to sign the best Euroleague free agents.

I am actually not that convinced this is going to happen. When you look let say their football league there isn't a lot of stars. Actually they have a plan in football to sign young Brazilian guys literally when they are 17, 18 and move them to their academies. There are a lot of bunch unknown foreign players. And football is 50x bigger in UAE than basketball. They care only about money and EL is not profitable league. So it doesn't make any sense to me that they will throw 40, 50M euros per year for the budget+13M for the clubs with the licence and all other expenses for the sport that literally no one cares about in the UAE. I know 2 local people from UAE who are businessman and every 2nd word from them is "money". We will see, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if their project is something like Valencia, Asvel or even Darussafaka when they entered EL with that pretty average team.

[paspalj]

If Pao can bring a player like Nunn who is so good for Europe but borderline for the NBA I bet that Dubai teams will be able to be stacked with “Nunn”-level talent. We’ll see how that works out.